in this video I'm going to show you three different ways to give
recommendation and advice in English. I'm teacher Prix and I want to help you you talk
to anyone anywhere anytime in English this is day seven six I have no idea but
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you become a more confident speaker today I decided to show you three
different ways to give recommendation to give a suggestion to give some advice to
someone in English okay basically you can make affirmative sentences questions
or you can put yourself in the person's position how do you do that I'm gonna
show you let's see for affirmative sentences you can use modal verbs, two very
nice modal verbs you can use are should and ought to now many students get
confused about the difference between should and ought to some people even say
that ought to is a little bit more formal than than should and it's not so common
well actually not necessarily okay people use ought to to as much as they use
should actually I was checking some some books and some forums and ought to is
a as common as any other word as table for example the only difference is that
you need the to after the word ought you ought to study or I can say you
should study okay and ought is not so common in negative sentences okay so
that's something I would recommend if you if you're gonna give a negative
suggestion just do it with shouldn't instead of trying to use ought to okay so as
I was saying you can use modal verbs to give suggestions in affirmative
sentences hmm I think you should eat more healthy food you ought to eat more
healthy food you can even use the sentences like I think you should I
believe you should in my opinion you should it's it's okay
too so these are some ways to give a suggestion in an affirmative sentence
that will mean you are giving a recommendation that will mean that you
are giving a piece of advice okay for questions now if you want to give
suggestion and recommendation by making questions you can do that too you can
ask a question with the idea of giving a recommendation of giving a piece of
advice for example ah I put on two kilos last month what should I do? teacher Prix why
don't you eat more healthy food why don't you so this is a good way to
make a question with the idea of giving a recommendation on giving us suggestion
to someone why don't you eat more healthy food why don't you study more
suggestion recommendation piece of advice okay another way you can say that
is how about how about eating more healthy food Priscilla that way you will
lose weight yeah I could lose weight but I don't want to so these two ways are
very popular how about and why don't you the idea is to give recommendation to
give a suggestion to give some advice okay and the last one if you put
yourself in the person's position when you are in the person's shoes and you
recommend something how do you do that well if I were you I would eat more
healthy food so let's suppose again the example I put on two kilos what do I do
then I can start by saying well if I were you I would eat more healthy food
oh I'm not doing well at school oh if I were you I'll study more okay
just keep in mind that if you're gonna use this structure you will use simple
past plus would if I were you I would blah blah blah if I were you I would
study if I were you I would eat more healthy food if I were you I
would try to get some rest there we go today's video is gonna be
short and sweet again but very helpful these are some ways to give advice and
recommendation in English there are so many more I'm not gonna give more
details and explanations about modal verbs as I said this month the ideas and
tips will be lighter but there are videos coming to talk more about modals
and I will definitely talk more about ought to, should must and so many other
modal verbs that we need to learn in English now I have three situations here
for you what do you need to do write a recommendation write a suggestion give
your advice okay I want to see your answers in the comments thank you so
much guys and I'll see you tomorrow bye!